Plate with a scene from Métamorphoses du Jour (plate 3)
The manufacturer Creil incorporated the image from plate 3 of J.J. Grandville’s popular lithograph series, Les Métamorphoses du jour (1829), which used animal caricatures to mock and satirize French society, on this charming plate made for the middle-class market. A dandy in the guise of a hare appears to have been caught in an affair by a rustic hunting dog returning home with his rifle. Grandville was an ardent republican, and fought in the July Revolution of 1830 alongside fellow caricaturist Honoré Daumier. Caricatures mocking the government were particularly risky after 1835, when the strict censorship laws on caricature were reinstated.
Artwork Details
- Title: Plate with a scene from Métamorphoses du Jour (plate 3)
- Manufactory: Creil (French, 1797–1895)
- Artist: J. J. Grandville (French, Nancy 1803–1847 Vanves)
- Date: ca. 1830–40
- Culture: French, Creil
- Medium: Glazed earthenware with transfer-printed decoration
- Dimensions: confirmed: 7/8 × 8 1/2 in. (2.2 × 21.6 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics-Pottery
- Credit Line: Gift of Lola Finkelstein, 2021
- Object Number: 2021.266.1
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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ca. 1830–40
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